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35 Cards in this Set
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When did the American economy begin to grow dramatically?
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after 1950
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The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 was partly intended to prevent what?
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prevent returning soldiers from flooding the job market
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What fueled the postwar economic boom?
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military spending and cheap energy
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What cased the rise of big commercial agribusiness and spelled the near-disappearance of the traditional family farm?
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consolidation of agriculture and mechanization
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What happened to labor unions in the booming postwar industrial factories?
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decreased
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What group was among the greatest beneficiaries of the post-WWII economic boom?
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women
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Which regions had gained most in population and new industry in the postwar economic expansion?
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South and West
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What drew millions of white and black Americans to the Sunbelt after WWII
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job opportunities, warm weather, improved race relations
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What did the economic and population growth of the Sunbelt rely on most?
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government spending
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What areas of financial support did the federal government give to the Sunbelt region?
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aerospace and defense industry
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Describe the population of the big cities and the suburbs after WWII
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cities - minorities
suburbs - whites |
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What sometimes encouraged residential segregation in the cities and new suburbs?
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government policies
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Name two federal policies that contributed to the postwar migration from the cities to the suburbs
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federal built highways; tax deduction of your mortgage
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What caused much school-building in the 1950s, a "youth culture" in the 1960s, and a growing concern about "aging" in the 1980s?
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post-war baby boom
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What was the primary reason that Franklin Roosevelt made concessions to Stalin at the Yalta conference
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fighting Japan
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Before WWII, how had the Soviet Union and the US viewed the rest of the world
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they wanted to be isolated and were mainly concerned with their own country
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What was a crucial early development of the Cold War
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East Germany for the Soviets and West Germany for the U.S.
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Who was the tough leader whose violation of agreements and insistence on establishing a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe helped launch the Cold War?
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Stalin
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What broke a soviet ground blockade and established American determination to resist further Soviet advance
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American Airlift
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What was the oil-rich Middle Eastern nation that became an early focal point of Soviet-American conflict?
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Iran
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Who was the brilliant U.S. specialist on the Soviet Union and originator of the theory that the U.S. policy should be to "contain" the Soviet Union?
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Keenan
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What led to organization of the permanent NATO alliance?
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the threat of Soviet invasion and U.S. isolationist withdrawal from Europe
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Why was the NATO alliance a historic transformation in American foreign policy?
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committed the U.S. to a permanent peacetime alliance in defense of other nations
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What were President Harry Truman's most valuable qualities as a leader?
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personal courage, authenticity, and responsibility for the big decisions
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What led to the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine and hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for anticommunist governments
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British withdrawal from communist threatened Greece
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Why was the Marshall plan developed
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in response to economic weakness and the threat of domestic communism in Western Europe
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What was the fundamental purpose of NATO?
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to defend Europe against the Soviets
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What around Republican charges that Democrats Truman and Acheson had "lost China"
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Mau Tse-Tung's defeat of Chaing Kai-Shek
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Who was the former VP of the U.S. whose 1948 campaign as a pro-Soviet liberal split the Democratic party?
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Wallace
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Who was the southern segregationist who led "Dixiecrat" presidential campaign against Truman in 1948
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Thurmond
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On what was the postwar hunt for communist subversion concentrated on and why?
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rooting out American communists in the government because they were thought to be spies
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Who was the young California congressman whose investigation of Alger Hiss spurred fears of communist influence in America?
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Nixon
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Who was the Wisconsin senator whose charges of communist infiltration of the U.S. government deepened the anti-red atmosphere of the early 1950s?
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Joseph McCarthy
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Why did Truman fire General MacArthur?
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MacArthur wanted to expand the Korean War to China
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What was the immediate cause of the Korean War?
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North Korea invaded South Korea
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